PlayStation Touch Screen for Your Linux Box

hebertrich writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article about how to modify a PlayStation LCD for use as a touch screen panel for your Linux box. From the article: "Historically, the lack of friendly interfaces has been an obstacle to making Linux® a commercially viable product for end users, but with available GUIs, that's yesterday's news. What's the next step in creating an easy-to-use Linux-based product for consumers? Imagine adding a user-oriented LCD touchscreen. A touchscreen facade can make back-end Linux applications very usable in such devices as custom digital media centers (either in the home or in automobiles), DVRs and PVRs, and even control interfaces for household robots."

Obstacle to making Linux commercially viable

[Anonymous Coward]

If lack of a touchscreen was holding linux back, a procedure that requires cracking something else open, cabling and soldering will not be winning you new converts or my grandmother.

So what do you do at IBM?

[kyoko21]

I write articles such as the one mentioned above. I get payed to think and work on things that are eventually free.

Man, what a job.

Think of the possibilities

[Anonymous Coward]

Nethack Touch Screen Edition, you could... finger finger, finger bash, finger fsck... you get the point.

sigh

[Hognoxious]

Touchscreens. The universal UI panacea. Well, apart from speech recognition.

Re:Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

I, for one, welcome our new PlayStation LCD touch screen-controlled robot overlords?

Re:Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

It had a question mark at the end?

Oh, I don't know

[rsilvergun]

I for one Welcome our new Touchscreen enabled Linux using Grandmother overlords.

. I've always wanted to say that :).

Re:Touchscreens holding Linux back?

[__aaclcg7560]

The problem is that user gets a headless linux server and doesn't know how SSH into the box from another machine to use the PINE email client. Presto! A touchscreen LCD solves the problem. It's what known as an IBM solution. :P

Mission Accomplished!

[Pedrito]

Historically, the lack of friendly interfaces has been an obstacle to making Linux® a commercially viable product for end users, but with available GUIs, that's yesterday's news.

This sounds a lot like (and is about as accurate as) Bush on the U.S.S. Lincoln claiming "Mission Accomplished."

Re:or just buy a 7" touchscreen

[elviscious]

PSone on Ebay [ebay.com]
Hmmm, $1.00, or $150.... I've made my choice

Smirnoff

[slashdotmsiriv]

In Soviet Russia screens touch you...